As expected, the NHL has filed a second complaint of "unfair labour practice" against the NHL Players' Association with the National Labour Relations Board in the United States.
This complaint is centred on the NHLPA's apparent policy of decertifying player agents if they choose to represent replacement players. The league had threatened to file the complaint if the NHLPA did not provide a satisfactory response to correspondence of more than a week ago. That apparently did not happen, so the filing with the NLRB was made this afternoon.
The league's first NLRB complaint against the union was on the NHLPA policy of making NHLPA members, who act as replacement players, pay back their lockout stipends.
There is no word on how long the NLRB will take to rule on these complaints.